This document discusses body language and how it is an important form of non-verbal communication. It notes that body language involves body movements and gestures and can convey a great deal without speaking. It then examines different types of body language like facial expressions, eye contact, smiling, posture, and gestures. For each type, it provides examples of positive body language like maintaining eye contact, smiling, and having confident posture that can create a good first impression and communicate effectively.

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3. What is Body Language
• Body language is non-verbal communication
that involves body movement.
• People in the workplace can convey a great
deal of information without even speaking;
through non-verbal communication
• Body language is the unspoken or non-verbal
mode of communication that we do in every
single aspect of our interaction with another
person.

4. How Does Body Speak?
• Like any spoken language, body language
has words, sentences and punctuation
• Each gesture is like a single word and one
word may have several different meanings
• It is like a mirror that tells us what the
other person thinks and feels in response
to our words or actions.

6. Lets examine how body language
communicates from head to toes

7. Types of body language
• Body movement
• Facial expressions
• Eye contact
• Smiling
• Posture
• Gesture

8. Body movement
• Avoid random movements
• Step forward to indicate you are arriving at
a point
• Step back when concluding a point and
signals the audience they can relax
momentarily.
• Always lead with your foot nearest your
destination.

9. Facial expressions reflect
emotions, feelings and attitude

10. Facial expressions
• The face is most one of the
most reliable indicators of a
person's attitude, emotions &
feelings
• Some people try to hide their
true emotions the term poker
face describes them.
• Your face is watched whenever
you speak.

11. Eye contact
• To make people feel good
and show your interest
you must maintain eye
contact.
• The easiest way to
maintain eye contact
naturally is to look at the
persons whole face
above the tip of their nose
• Honest person has a
tendency to look you
straight in the eye when
you speaking
• Establish a bond

12. smiling
• The most strong body
language signal to
influence our first
impression is the
smile
• It is the most
recognize signal
everywhere
• Smiling is an
international language

13. Voice tone
• Powerful voice tone reflect confidence
• Take pause to stimulate thinking
• Don’t speak too quickly its reflects stress
and excitement
• Change your pace according to your call
• Clear controlled steady voice shows
confidence
• Hesitation: low confidence

14. Imp of non-verbal communication
• Actual words convey only 10% of the
message
• The other 90% is transmitted by non-
verbal communication which consists of
40% how it is said and 50% body
language

15. Posture
• One of the first key things
people notice is how to
carry and present your self
• Do you walk & stand with
confidence
• In any face-to-face
communication or meeting
or interview the way we
hold our head, body shape
and posture is very
important.

16. Gestures.
• The physical
movement of
arms, legs,
hands, and head
are known
gestures. They
play a very
important role in
conveying
meaning without
using words.

17. Relax your shoulders
• When you feel tense its easily winds up as
tension in your shoulders. They might
move up and forward a bit.Try to relax.Try
to loosen up by shaking the shoulders a
bit and move them back

18. Don't touch your face
• It might make you
seem nervous and can
be distracting for the
listeners or the people
in the conversation

19. Keep your head up
• Don’t keep your eyes on the ground it
might make you seem insecure and a bit
lost
• Keep your head up straight and your eyes
towards the horizon

20. Don’t stand too close
• One of the things we learned is that
everybody feels uncomfortable by a close
talker
• It is embarrassing if the move we back the
more the other persons come forward
• Let people have their personal space don’t
invade it

21. Keep a good attitude
• Last but not least keep a positive, open
and relaxed attitude. how you feel will
come through in your body language and
can make a major difference